Trucking Blog Archive

Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.

Ohio

Welcome to Ohio! We stopped here because we only had 9 minutes left on our 70 hour week! We sure have been hauling around lately! Earlier today we noticed a vehicle on…

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Long day

Welcome to Avoca, Iowa! We will spend the night here since we have had a full busy day! I am happy with our progress thus far. Tomorrow should be more mileage since…

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Delays

Well I had this trip planned out pretty good but now we need to have a trailer repair folks come out and repair some very minor sidewall damage before it can be…

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Next!

We are next in line for our trailer washout then we will get loaded at the shipper. Once that gets done we well head to interstate 76 and then see how far…

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Johnson’s Corner

Good morning Road Crew! We are just a few miles from where we deliver later today. We will leave here at 1PM to make the delivery then off to the next shipper!…

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Tighter!

Afternoon and welcome to Denver, Colorado! We got our next trip lined up after tomorrow’s delivery. We are only 55 miles away and we can’t arrive early so we will call it…

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Limon

Welcome to Limon, Colorado where we will take our lunch break. Good roads today on US highway 287…better than I expected! We are running ahead on this trip but we will keep…

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Dumas

I was going to stop for the night in Amarillo, Texas but then I felt like that would be lazy of me…so we rolled on to Dumas! We are ahead of schedule…

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Memphis!

Its lunchtime in Memphis, Texas! They have a Love’s Sub’s here. Fantastic burritos made with the oversized tortillas! Add your veggies and it only cost $6 for two of them! After I…

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8 hours

Afternoon! We did the “Whataburger Walk” then scooted on down to the delivery to eat lunch and hope they put us in a door early. Guess what? They already have us in…

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Shorty!

Morning! We started rolling this morning into Dallas to drop our trailer and take out another one! Why? The load we had was not to deliver for two more days and the…

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Denton!

Welcome to Denton, Texas! Long day today as we rolled 601.3 miles! Decent travel conditions with the sun coming out the last few minutes after having been foggy and drizzle all day…

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